Delivery container



Dec. 7 1926. I 1,610,001

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UNITED STATES 1,610,001 PATENT OFFICE.

ARNAUD FOSTER, 0F BAYCNNE, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, NIGEL ADOUR BEL- LAIRS, 0F CHATEAU BISCARDY, ST. ETIENNE, FRANCE, AND HAMON DALBIN BEL- LAIRS, OF BIARRITZ, FRANCE.

DELIVERY CONTAINER.

Application filed January 11, 1926, Serial No. 80,592, and inFrance July 10, 1925.

the oscillable element furthermore being adapted, upon release, to return automatically to its normal position.

The oscillable element is provided with a pocket or depression that in the normal position of said element lies at the base of the container in position to receive one of the contained objects in readiness for delivery, and said oscillable element is provided with extended, cam-like means, capable of riding through the lower portion of the container, to co-act with the forward wall of said container in guiding a contained object toward the pocket or depression of the oscillable element during the return movement of the latter to its normal position.

Further my invention consists in the provision of means, carried by the oscillable element, and co-acting with the container wall, to serve asa stop for limiting the extent of rotation of said oscillatory element in its object delivering movement, said stop means also serving to increase the weight, eccentrically applied to the oscillable ele: ment, to aid in restoring said oscillable element to its normal position. I

Still further my invention includes the provision of means carried by the oscillable element and movable into the container in the delivery operation of the oscillable element, to prevent the creation of a clear space between the cam-like extended means and the rear wall of the container which would otherwise tend to receive contained objects during the delivery operation and thereby prevent the return movement of the oscillable element.

Other features and advantages of my invention will hereinafter appear.

In the. drawing Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved delivery container.

Fig. 2 is a side sectional view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation.

Fig. 4 is a partial side section, enlarged,

the modified device, showing the oscillable element in its normal position, and

Fig. 10 is a similar view, showing the oscillable element turned to effect delivery.

While not limited in its uses to any spe- ClfiC purpose, I have for example illustrated my invention as directed to a delivery apparatus for cigarettes, operable with a single hand, so that, when fitted in a motor vehicle, the driver can easily obtain a cigarette without removing both hands from the steering wheel. Other uses to which the device can be applied will be equally apparent.

In the views I have shown a container for cigarettes having tlm vertical front wall 1, the rearward wall 2 which is curved at its lower portion toward said front wall, and the parallel side walls 3. Extended from the rear wall are lugs 4 by which the container may be secured to a suitable fixed support. I

The lower ends of the front and rear walls are in spaced relation, leaving a base clearance 5, to which is opposed the surface of an oscillable element, in the form of a cylinder 6, mounted on a shaft 7, that is ournalled in pendent extensions 8 of the side walls 3. I

The container serves as a hopper for the objects to be delivered, suchfor example as cigarettes, and these are laid horizontally within the hopper, endwise between its sides.

The oscillable element is provided with a longitudinal surface depression or groove 9, of capacity enabling it to contain a single cigarette, said groove, in the normal position of the oscillable element, lying beneath the hopper in order that it may be supplied through the clearance 5.

I Also the oscillable element 6 is provided with means urging it in a clock-wise directo be turned by finger pressure, in an anticlockwise direction, the turnin movement,

, shown in successive stages in Figs. 5 and 6,

bringing the palm of the hand underneath the device, in position to receive the cigarette as it falls by gravity from groove 9, see Fig. 6. Then, upon release of the oscillable element. it returns automatically to its normal position, see Fig. 4.

The automatic return means for the oscillable element here shown consist in weighting said element more at one side its axis than at the other side. Thus, a pair of camlike extensions or counterweights 11 are extended from element, 6 at its right hand side, (in Fig. 4) thereby giving the preponderance in weight to that side. This condition may be accentuated by lightening the element 6 at its left hand side (in Fig. 4) .as by the removal of material indicated at 12.

The cam-like extensions 11 are adapted in the turning movement of the oscillable element to ride through slots 13 provided'respectively in the rear and front walls 2 and 1 of the container, thereby enabling said extensions to displace the cigarettes u wardly from the hopper base in the anti-cockwise turning or delivery operation of the oscillable element. Also, since the cam-like extensions 11 merge peripherally into the perimeter 14 of groove 9, they are thereby enabled to serve as uides, in co-action with the front wall 1, directing one of the cigarettes (15) in the hopper into a downwardly forward position from which it may convenlently drop into the groove 9, as said groove passes thereunder in the automatic return movement of the oscillable element. A. still further function of said extensions consists in their holding upwardly the other cigarettes in the hopper while the cigarette (15) is being guided into a delivery position, thereby preventing a congested condition at clearance 5 which 'would militate against the smooth and selective working of the delivery means.

The container may be provided with a cover 16 in the form of a receptacle for ashes, and said cover may carry a rest 17 for a c garette.

In the modified form of my invention shown in Figs. 6 to 9 the oscillable element 6 1s shown as carrying a late or wing 18 that lies lengthwise thereof and extends eccentrically therefrom at the side opposite action with the rear Wall 2 of the container,

to limit the extentof rotation of the oscillable element in its delivery operation.

Extended from the plate or wing 18, about midway of its length, is a lug or projection 19, which may be rectangular in shape, and is adapted to enter the container through a slot 20 provided in its rear wall.

The location of this lug or projection 19 upon the oscillable element is to the rearward of the crowns of the cam-like extensions 11; and its function is to follow said extensions 11 into the container during the delivery operation of the oscillable element, to thereby occupy the space Whichoccurs between the crowns of extensions 11 and rear wall 2, thereby preventing the entry into such space of the contained cigarettes or other objects. Otherwise the cigarettes or other objects would lodge in such space and .form an obstruction preventing the gravity-return of the oscillable element to its normal position.

Variations within the spirit and scope o .my invention are equally comprehended by the foregoing disclosure.

I claim:

1. A delivery device comprising an object containing hopper having" front and rear walls provided with vertical slots at their lower ends, an oscillable cylinder mounted at the base of said hopper, said cylinder being manually turnable in one direction and I provided with an object receiving groove that lies uppermost in the normal position of said cylinder, a cam-like counterweight extended from said cylinder to turn it in the return direction, and a stop to limit such re turn movement, said cam-like counterweight, in the manually operated movement of the cylinder riding into the hopper through the slots in 1ts walls and selectively guiding an object therein to a position for deposit 1n the cylinder groove.

2. A delivery device comprising an obj ect containing hopper having front and rear walls provided with vertical slots at their lower ends, an oscillable cylinder mounted at the base of said hopper, said cylinder being manually turnable in one direction and provided with an object receiving groove that lies uppermost inthe normal position of said cylinder, .spaced cam-like projections extended from sald cylinder that ride into the hopper through the slots in its walls to selectively guide an object therein into posiextended from said cylinder that ride into the hopper through the slots in its walls to selectively guide an object therein into po- 15 sition for deposit in the cylinder roove, and a rectangular projection extende from such cylinder to enter the hopper through a slot in its rear wall and prevent the lodgment of objects between the cam-like projections $0 and said rear wall.

Executed'this 23rd day of December, 1925.

ARNAUD FOSTER. 

